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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The most important stone in the Scott/Waterton Cemetery in Huntington Mills Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania is the one that starts with Hannah Goss and features Nathaniel Goss and his mother Mary. Paul H. Goss traveled to this same cemetery and viewed these stones. He was trying to unpuzzled the Goss Family lineage. Go here to the Family History Library online version of two of his manuscripts:

Mary is my 5th great grandmother and wife of Phillip Goss of Brookfield. They came to the area around the Susquehannah River in 1769 and he died by November of 1778. His grave is missing and there is a big story around his death with some controversy.

As you face the older section of the cemetery you see this view with the name GOSS:

Coming up on the Goss Tombstone

You approach and can see more details: (Blogger will not allow me to fix this and it distorts the picture. Click on it and it should be okay. If not let me know. It is affecting these two sideways photos. I also had to reload all my photos for this post).

Closer yet: (Blogger will not allow me to fix this).

First the detail for Hannah Goss:

Second is the detail for Nathaniel Goss SR:

Third is the detail at the bottom for Mary Goss:

Me at the tombstone on a very happy day! Standing next to the tombstone of Mary and Nathaniel and Hannah.

Unfortunately, I was unable to locate any tombstone for Obadiah Scott Sr. in this cemetery or any other in the area. He would be Hannah's father.

For further information about the Goss family and collateral lines go to my blog: Solomon Goss of Fearing Twp. in Ohio: http://sgossfamily.wordpress.com/ I have not posted on this part of the Goss family history but will do so within the coming months.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

There is one stone in this cemetery that is very important to the Goss family history. This stone has many sides and one of the sides features the son of Nathaniel Goss and Hannah (Scott) Goss and Mary Goss the mother.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

These stones were around the Goss tombstones. Some of the names are familiar like Fellows and Tubbs.

The first photo is looking towards the rest of the cemetery and shows a lot of the space between the stones and of course the broken stones.

The Fellows family interacted with the Goss in the Huntington Twp., Luzerne Co., PA area. Nathaniel Goss (1817-1887 buried in Pine Grove Cemetery) married Harriett Fellows on 15 July 1875. He married twice another wife was Lucy Fuller. He was the son of Nathaniel Goss Jr. and Thankful Forbes. He is the grandson of Nathaniel Goss and Hannah Scott Goss.

Things to Ponder!

The header photo is of the Lee Cemetery in Hardin Co., Ohio southeast of Kenton, Ohio.

As of today 8/12/2016 Google has closed down Picasa for Photos. They moved them to Google Photos and Google Photo Archive. If there are any problem with my photos from this blog give me a holler and I will check it out. When posting in Blogger the photos went into Picasa for safekeeping it doesn't work that way at Wordpress. I did not move BJM Cemeteries to Wordpress so this is why I am concerned. So far so Good. Thanks. Let me know if there is a problem with any of the photos. Thanks.

As a member of Find A Grave I have been adding photos and memorials and getting some transferred to me and trying to spend a couple hours each week adding to the website. Scroll to the bottom of this blog and you will find a link to my contributions on Find A Grave.

Here are my tips:

I find Find A Grave is really good for finding tombstones and memorials for those buried in the USA. Canada is making progress in adding to Find A Grave but you also have to go to other websites in your search. These websites are the Canadian Headstones.com, OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the Canadian Gen Webs Cemetery project are few places to look. Each province may have a way to locate cemeteries. Hopefully I have identified these websites in my posts but be aware they do change their urls.